Quaker and former Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) employee Jessica Metheringham has received enough pledges for her new board game Disarm the Base to be produced. With a minimum goal…
Cotteridge Meeting has become the first UK Quaker Meeting to be given a Gold Eco Church award. The prize from A Rocha recognises that Cotteridge Quakers have reduced the carbon…
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has backed a campaign calling for free public showers to be installed in London to ‘enhance the wellbeing of those who sleep rough’. The petition…
The Quaker writer Jennifer Kavanagh has been invited to deliver a regular slot on radio offering a Quaker perspective on news. The member of Westminster Meeting reviewed the papers…
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) held workshops for creative exploration of ‘Earth’s Fragile Abundance’ last month, including outdoor sketching, creative writing, dance and…
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) celebrated the birthday of Quaker social reformer and environmentalist Ada Salter last month, who was born in 1866.
Brighton Meeting House was the third venue in less than a week to cancel an event with MP Chris Williamson after they were warned that there may be violence. The Derby North MP was…
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has begun a new investigation into child protection in religious organisations and settings.
Quakers supported a group of LGBTQ+ people who were removed from a Pride event in Surrey this month for protesting against the event’s sponsors BAE Systems. The attenders…
A woman who was supported by Quaker Social Action’s (QSA’s) ‘Down to Earth’ programme spoke on a BBC news programme this month about her struggle with funeral debt…
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